#perception

Psychology | Psychology

Our Brains Completely Distort How Time Actually Happens — Here’s How To Take Advantage Of It

Researchers are attempting to understand how our interaction with our environment shapes our experience of time.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

What Even Is Time? An Explainer

Our perception of time is changing constantly. Here’s why—and how to harness the power for good.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

Why CAPTCHA Pictures Are So Unbearably Depressing | by Clive Thompson | Aug, 2021 | OneZero

Part of it is the sheer hassle of repeatedly identifying objects — traffic lights, staircases, palm trees and buses — just so I can finish a web search. I also don’t like being forced to donate free…

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

The Delta Variant Has Warped Our Risk Perception | WIRED

Gone are the easy, thoughtless choices of hot vax summer. Making decisions that balance safety and sanity just got a lot more complicated.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

How to Make Time Slow Down

After a lost year in the pandemic, you might be feeling like time is slipping through your fingers. Here's how to stop it.

Psychology | Psychology

Colors Evoke Similar Feelings Around the World - Neuroscience News

Color emotion may be a universal phenomenon, a new study reveals. People from different parts of the world often associate the same color with the same emotions.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

The Past, Present and Future Are Subjective

By Emma Young. When people see the future as coming sooner, they make more far-sighted choices, the study finds.

Psychology | Hypnosis Information

Finding Your Flow State Shifts Time

This article is part of Nautilus’ month-long exploration of the science and art of time. Read the introduction here. Don’t look…

News | News Items

Fake News Influences Voters and Leads to False Memories

Fake news almost certainly influences voters, and can even cause many to form false memories based on fabricated news reports they've seen, a new study finds.

Psychology | Personality

An Engineer Says He's Figured Out Why Time Moves Faster as We Grow Up

As we humans grow older and wiser, it's not unusual to feel as if time were whizzing by, quietly gathering speed with every year.

Psychology | Personality

Your native language affects what you can and can’t see – Research Digest

By Emma Young. This is the first demonstration that language affects whether we consciously perceive a stimulus or not.

Psychology | Personality

Understanding Reality: What Hallucinations Reveal - The Atlantic

Experiences like hearing voices are leading psychologists to question how all people perceive reality.

Psychology | Personality

Flat Minds | Psychology Today

Almost everything we think we know about our own minds is wrong. Perhaps that's progress.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

Sleep Hallucinations - Research & Treatments

Need to know more about Sleep Hallucinations? Find expert research & treatment advice from the American Sleep Association - Official Site.

Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research

The Hairstyles That Make You Look Most Intelligent And Attractive

Certain hairstyles made people look more sexy, others more good-natured or even more narrow-minded.

Business & Finance | Business

The Perception of Influence vs. Actual Influence | Inc.com

With everyone being a content creator, the line between true influence and less-than-true influence has been blurred.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

The Case Against Reality

A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

How Your Brain Controls the Speed of Time

Why does reality seem to slow down in moments of extreme peril? Can the mind really bend time? Here’s the neuroscience behind the phenomenon.

Psychology | Hypnosis Information

#Hypnosis: You are getting sleepy ... and calm, and thin, and ...

Ever wonder why some people, even under adverse circumstances, set goals and achieve them effortlessly? Some of them, undoubtedly, are hard-wired to succeed. They just set themselves in a direction and their mind handles the rest.

Pets & Animals | Cat & Dog Resources

Cats, Dogs, and Other Animals Can See Beyond Human Perception

Have you ever felt that your cat or dog can see something you don’t? Well, you may be right, according to a new study.

Music | Songs

Holes in the Wall

There are holes in the wall Hidden underneath the pictures I can’t answer when you call There’s a shortage in the fixture The lawn is overgrown And the floor’s in need of sweeping But I can’t get o...

Science & Technology | Cool Stuff

Mind Blowing... These 23 Unbelievable Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time

Time has always perplexed the human race. We’ve tried to define it, track it, and measure it since the emergence of civilization. However, facts like these listed here show us how distorted our perception of time can be and how much we still need to

Science & Technology | Science & Space

5 Facts About Time That Will Hurt Your Brain

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping, into the future ... well, sort of.